Public Writing
Clips and Public Writing
2024 “The Palestinian Connection in El Salvador’s Politics,” The New Arab
2023 “The Power of El Salvador's Palestinian Diaspora,” Institute of Palestine Studies
“Palace Intrigue,” Contingent Magazine
“Rebelling Against Time in Cairo,” Mada Masr
2022 “When Unity Discourse Dismisses Systemic Sectarianism in Egypt,” Tahrir Institute for Middle
East Policy – also translated into Arabic and Spanish
“The Faith-Based Politics of El Salvador’s Millennial President,” Religion and Politics
“The Forbidden Photographs,” Rusted Radishes Beirut Literary Magazine
“Beyond Sectarian Violence: Socioeconomic Challenges for Copts in Egypt,” Tahrir Institute
for Middle East Policy
2021 “On Dead Ends and the Historian’s Craft,” Contingent Magazine
“El Pueblo de Dios: Latino Evangelicals and Christian Zionism,” The Revealer
“Research under Covid Lockdowns, or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Online Resources,”
Egypt Migrations.
“Unquestioned Support for Israel Wasn’t Always the Way for Conservative Christians,” Religion
Dispatches.
“How I Met My Mother (and Billy Graham),” The Revealer.
2020 “Some textbooks still parrot Donald Trump’s skewed version of U.S. history,” The Washington
Post.
“American Protestantism’s Commodification of the Middle East’s ‘Holy Lands,’” Sojourners
“Hulu’s ERA-Focused Mini-Series ‘Mrs. America’ Reveals an Ongoing Predicament of
Progressive Politics,” Religion Dispatches.
“In the Garden of Eden with Shakira,” Sojourners.
2019 “Ramy Kamel, Mada Masr, and Seeing Coptic Issues as Civil Liberties in Egypt,” Tahrir
Institute for Middle East Policy.
“What the Taming of Christian Spaces Reveals about Egypt’s Security Complex,” Jadaliyya.
“Interview with Massoud Hayoun,” Palestine Square.
“Religious Liberty Shouldn’t Come at the Expense of Human Rights,” Sojourners.
“El Salvador’s Bukele at Crossroads in Relations with Ancestral Land,” Palestine Square.
“U.S. Evangelicals Trivialize Global Religious Persecution,” Sojourners.
“Are Christian Schools at Odds with Social Justice?” Sojourners.
“American Missionary Could Face Genocide Charges, But Brazil’s Indigenous Communities
Have a Bigger Problem,” Religion Dispatches.
2018 “The Landmark 85-Year-Old Report Absent from Debates over Missionary’s Death,”
Religion Dispatches.
“Pence’s Empty Promises to Christians in the Middle East,” Yale Journal of International Affairs.
“Syria’s Christians Reckon with Survival,” Sojourners.
2017 “Targeted Yet Faithful: Egypt's Copts, Wary of Restrictions, Celebrate Virgin Mary Feast,”
Sojourners.